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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, and happy Fourth of July. I am thrilled to be here at Monticello.

In Minnesota, at least, that American flag you’re buying for this July 4th will be made in the U.S.A. A new state law requires that all Old Glories sold in Minnesota must be American made.

AMMAN, Jordan - Iraqi officials say Jordan’s King Abdullah II plans to visit Iraq next week in the first trip by an Arab head of state since Saddam Hussein was deposed in 2003.

AMMAN, Jordan - Iraqi officials say Jordan’s King Abdullah II plans to visit Iraq next week in the first trip by an Arab head of state since Saddam Hussein was deposed in 2003.

The agreement to sell 100% of the government’s shares in the Electricity Distribution Company and 55.4% of Irbid District Electricity Company to Kingdom Electricity Company at a total value of $104m was …

The Dead Sea , shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians isn’t listed as one of the Wonders of the World, but it should be.

Israel has barred a UN human rights committee from visiting the Palestinian areas on a fact-finding mission, the leader of the group said yesterday.

AMMAN: A military prosecutor has charged three Jordanians with plotting a suicide car bomb attack on a church in Amman in May, a judicial official said on Thursday.

A JORDANIAN prosecutor charged far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders on Tuesday with blasphemy and violation of publishing laws over his film judged anti-Islamic. Jordan’s publishing laws ban insults against Islam …

Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby …